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Cage Eleven is Gerry Adams' account -- sometimes passionate, often humorous -- of life in Long Kesh prison and, above all, of his fellow prisoners.
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About the Author
President of Sinn Fein and TD for Louth, Gerry Adams has been a published writer since 1982. His books have won critical acclaim in many quarters and have been widely translated. His writings range from local history and reminiscence to politics and short stories, and they include the fullest and most authoritative exposition of modern Irish republicanism. Born in West Belfast in 1948 into a family with close ties to both the trade union and republican movements, Gerry Adams is the eldest of ten children. His mother was an articulate and gentle woman, his father a republican activist who had been jailed at the age of sixteen, and he was partly reared by his grandmother, who nurtured in him a love of reading. His childhood, despite its material poverty, he has described in glowing and humorous terms, recollecting golden hours spent playing on the slopes of the mountain behind his home and celebrating the intimate sense of community in the tightly packed streets of working-class West Belfast. But even before leaving school to work as a barman, he had become aware of the inequities and inequalities of life in the north of Ireland. Soon he was engaged in direct action on the issues of housing, unemployment and civil rights. For many years his voice was banned from radio and television by both the British and Irish governments, while commentators and politicians condemned him and all he stood for. But through those years his books made an important contribution to an understanding of the true circumstances of life and politics in the north of Ireland. James F. Clarity of the New York Times described him in the Irish Independent as "A good writer of fiction whose stories are not IRA agitprop but serious art."
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Quite brilliant * Books Ireland * Evocative and often witty cameos of prison life * Times Literary Supplement * When the work of most of the participants in literature's yearly orgy of hype and hysteria has been consigned to history, Adams's slim volume will be alive and well. -- Sunday Press
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- PublisherSheridan Square Pubns
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1879823047
- ISBN 13 9781879823044
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages146
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1993 Hardcover Interior signed "Gerry Adams 8/5/97" Interior otherwise clean. Binding tight. Boards clean. Dust jacket protected in mylar sleeve. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1673907013017
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1993. As President of Sin Fein Adams served as the public face of the IRA in Northern Ireland; He was instrumental in reaching peaceful solutions to the long and vicious conflict with England. This book of short pieces is his memoir of incarceration in Long Kesh Prison. First published in Ireland in 1990; this is a Fine copy of the First American Edition, which has been SIGNED by Adams on the Title Page and dated in 1997. Gray-green cloth binding with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; xv, 146 pages, with one page of adverts in the rear. Includes a Glossary of Irish and prison slang. Introduction by Paul O'Dwyer. The dustjacket is Fine, unclipped; in an archival plastic protector. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 005121
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1993. As the spokesman for Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams (b. 1948) has been the face of the Irish republican movement, and now is a "respectable" politician; this is his memoir of his imprisonment by the British in Long Kesh Internment Camp. This is a Fine copy of the First American Edition, rather scarce. Sage green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 146 pages, with a Glossary of Irish slang and a publisher's advert at the rear . This copy has been SIGNED by Adams in the year of publication on the Title Page. The dustjacket is unclipped; interestingly, the original sage green colour has "faded" to a brighter green on the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Seller Inventory # 001706
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